Midwest Book Review

Clearly and copiously documenting Bruce Adam as a master of the short story, Dreams of a Lifetime anthologizes eight-nine of his always engaging, often provocative, dependably original, and carefully crafted tales. From "Jungle Dreams," "The Two Sides of an Abortion," and "The Mystic Collective" to "The Internal Recorder," "The Cover-up" and the titled piece, "Dreams of a Lifetime," this is a collection that will leave Bruce Adam's readers waiting eagerly for more!

Ford Russell, author of Northrop Frye on Myth

What connects the "dreams" in this collection is the bittersweet emptiness that comprises so much of lived experience of our time. These dreams, for readers, are crystals from the opaque depths, which help us to see and to excavate, at the level of articulation, parables of our interior life.

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Bruce Adam was born in Chicago. He studied at Lake Forest College and Harvard before graduating from Northern Illinois University with honors. He then moved to Nantes, France where he taught and continued his studies. Returning to the US, he worked ten years in publishing before turning his attention to completing his own work. Dreams of a Lifetime is the first in a series of books of stories by Adam from Ara Pacis. The second volume, The Voyage of a Bean, is scheduled for release in 2005.